Alternative combination: Helicosphaera hyalina
Belongs to Helicopontosphaera according to Gaarder 1970
Sister taxa: Helicosphaera burkei, Helicosphaera carteri, Helicosphaera cateri, Helicosphaera compacta, Helicosphaera ethologa, Helicosphaera euphratis, Helicosphaera intermedia, Helicosphaera lophota, Helicosphaera neolophota, Helicosphaera obliqua, Helicosphaera orientalis, Helicosphaera pacifica, Helicosphaera papillata, Helicosphaera parallela, Helicosphaera perchnielseniae, Helicosphaera reticulata, Helicosphaera rhomba, Helicosphaera sellii, Helicosphaera seminulum, Helicosphaera stalis, Helicosphaera truncata, Helicosphaera walbersdorfensis, Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera minima, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (20 collections), North Atlantic (5)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (5)
• G. ruber PRZ of North Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (57), North Atlantic (9), North Pacific (37), South Pacific (45)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (11)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (4), South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (8), South Pacific (2)
Total: 208 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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